I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore.… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.” — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
“As Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine noted, modernity has turned us all into Jews. ("The Jewish Century," 2004.) Modernism is the dysfunction that… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“I remember reading once how some Stone Age Indians from the Brazilian rain forest with no knowledge or expectation of a world… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Western Civilization was responsible for a paradigm shift in history. It created the industrial and scientific revolutions that enabled the birth of… — Benjamin Fulford Copy Share Image
Lee was very much his own person so it's impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the… — Sarah Burton Copy Share Image
“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted… — Leon Roth Copy Share Image
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“From the advertisement, his eyes moved up the skywalk, the zigzagging metal bridge that connected various locations in the neighborhood to the… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
“Modernity could be identified with the gradual disappearance of ritual , of those kind of communal bonds founded upon a symbolically shared… — Thomas Brockelman Copy Share Image
It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the… — Fraser Nelson Copy Share Image
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Yet in fact modernity is a surprisingly simple deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Modern art has to be what is called intense. it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Modernity is not divorced from spiritualism, though it is from the charlatan. The ascetic (renunciate) owns nothing - not even his or… — Amarjyoti Acharya Copy Share Image
“Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy’s content and… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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